calls for n.s.a. reform grow among washington's political elite but intelligence chiefs remain defiant warning of drastic consequences if the spying program is. the u.s. officials in washington to demand an explanation over the n.s.a. sweeping spy program a spanish paper reports that local intelligence actually helped the surveillance. independent security london threatens to deny access to its intelligence services. yes the separation from the united kingdom. canadians get the first of a bitcoin a.t.m. digital codes for cash we took a global uses of turning to the unstable cytokines. center

here in moscow this is a twenty four hour a day in the u.s. political opinion towards a spying practices that cause a storm of global criticism looks to be shifting both republicans and democrats have called for reform of the n.s.a. with lawmakers proposing a ban only agency collecting data in bulk intelligence community is how about strongly opposed it is much more important for this country that we defend this nation and take the beating. then it is to give up a program that would result in this nation being attacked. for testifying before the house intelligence committee n.s.a. director general keith alexander forcefully warned against limiting the surveillance program this fear was echoed by the u.s.

intelligence chief he said reforms would lead to greater risks now this is all happening against the backdrop of a growing diplomatic row with america's e.u. allies demanding answers over allegations their citizens and leaders were spying on european correspondent as a senior brings the details. there is a delegation of the u. officials and separately a delegation of german officials who are in washington to speak with the members of the u.s. administration as well as intelligence chiefs to discuss this latest revelation in this case of national security agency's a spying operations on up to thirty five world leaders including german chancellor angela merkel as well as allegedly tens of millions of of french and spanish citizens as well now the outrage in europe has been palpable we have on the liverpool having said that the confidence of our country towards the u.s. has been quote unquote that we also remember the a recent to e.u. official statement talking highlighting the distrust that this these allegations

have actually created all of this anger spilling over not just in terms of diplomacy but also in the transatlantic deal so many things calling for the stalling of that so we see a direct impact of consequences of these allegations but the frustration right now is not just going one way because they're also frustrated reactions coming from the u.s. the n.s.a. chief having said that the nato allies have willingly shared that information with the u.s. and that these allegations of widespread spying were in fact completely falls and misunderstood by readers as well as reporters that regardless of their still a very strong impetus from the e.u. to push the u.s. to adopt a new overseas a surveillance guidelines from the e.u. already back stricter new guidelines on the data sharing with third parties especially the united states and europeans in the past two weeks they've really adamant that they need a rethink of the intelligence process this is what they're hoping to get out of this and need to get the. visit to washington seems to be

a step towards that direction. and it's a claims that e.u. intelligence agencies winningly share data about by the latest leaks published in spain el mundo the paper the earlier revealed more than sixty million calls were tracked by the n.s.a. within a month now says that this was done in collaboration with spanish intelligence services well this document shows the u.s. dissing distinguishes for different levels of cooperation with foreign agencies and the first group is made up of those which share the most intelligence with washington the likes of u.k. australia canada and new zealand and together they're known as the five days the second group includes more than a dozen european countries spain among them plus japan south korea and turkey the third shares only limited data and includes france israel india and pakistan now the fourth group is made up of countries washington sees as hostile to its interests but the journalist behind the el mundo report come out and told me earlier more countries are about to discover how closely their agencies worked with

the n.s.a. . european services they share some information with united states services i mean with with the a while the documents say is that spain and all the conferees european model conferees they helped the n.s.a. to get the axis to be true this information how they share some kind of information or for the maybe even the doubters the the volume the. make up of really these this is what the documents say they don't say exactly how much information or exactly the all the information they share but they share a bond they say that there is real and intense cooperation between both countries with. people is going to see the. more phenomenal way the spanish the contras. the white house has already made steps to could tell the n.s.a.

in particular ordering eavesdropping on the u.n. headquarters in new york to be reduced but to what extent does the u.s. president actually control the agency's activities and how aware was he of spying on europe's leaders and citizens well these are some of the questions raised in peter lavelle's latest edition of crosstalk is a quick preview and you can watch the full version on our web site right now at r.t. dot com. corney the president's spokesman said you know the president knew nothing about it however the n.s.a. is doing a great job what they're doing anyway so it really does raise some very troubling issues does the president have control over the n.s.a. does seem. i mean even more seriously was this an operation approved under president george w. bush that's gone on and they've not bothered to inform the president the united states is being run by remote control by a group of corrupt companies and these companies want the n.s.a.

to find out secrets trade secrets from all the companies in the world this is this is what they're doing this is unacceptable the american people deserve a better government than this. one it's not just america's spying that's been the focus of media attention lately to italian newspapers a published claims over russia's activities as host of the recent g. twenty summit. has taken on the during the g twenty summit which took place in st petersburg this year guests including political leaders world leaders have received a gift box which. flash cards as well as phone chargers which according to the newspapers are essentially spy ware now these allegations have already been denied by the presidential spokesman a russian presidential spokesman who said that as a matter of fact it looks like. just an attempt to sway the attention away from real problems towards imaginary ones and because the newspapers didn't particularly

cite any of their sources specifically is that a fact italian government itself is already starting to look into these allegations in order to find out where exactly i mean from. you're watching r t we're live here in moscow with twenty four hours a day there's plenty more to come later this hour including ready in time the new president of the olympic committee tells r.t. he is confident the sochi games will be a success during one of his first interviews and says the games will be free of discrimination we report on that later in the program. first the british government is pushing hard to persuade scots that independence is not the way to go home secretary is now warning that by going alone scott the may lose access to intelligence services leaving it at greater risk. to started the claims. she says that any scottish independence words undermine the fight against organized crime cyber attacks terrorism and things like that because scotland would have to

build up its own security infrastructure as it would no longer necessarily have access to intelligence that comes from the u.k. or indeed from other countries that currently. information the scottish national party has said that it's ok declaring independence for scotland would reduce the risk of terrorist attacks because it says that part of its independence party would get rid of the nuclear arsenal on its submarines and it would also not take part in any more what it calls illegal wars it's really the latest in a series of kind of threats and speculations both sides of this the scottish national party in scotland and the parliament here in westminster have been tapping into these kind of emotive issues so the s.n.p. uses these age old rivalries between between the u.k. and scotland between england and scotland and also taps into this nationalist sentiment meanwhile the westminster parliament which obviously wants the u.k.

to stay together thought stuff like this in the past it said or if scotland declares independence you won't necessarily be able to use the pound anymore you might have to apply to join the euro you probably wouldn't be automatically in the european union in nato so this is just another one of those things if you do if scotland declares independence it will be worse off as a westminster parliament scotland has already called this irresponsible it says it's politicizing security and antiterrorism and scottish national party member has called this project fear or to talk to angus macneil from the scottish national party the one that stands for independence from the u.k. he brushed away the claims from london saying it's just a scaremongering campaign. mrs mason but as yourself is a very bad helloween character of course we are how board in my side of the argument by the need to make sense and to use logic but misses me is not constrained by any of the. parameters the toll it it's basically project your stuff

again from mrs majors and barely see yourself badly in the way philip hammond the defense of the defense minister did a few weeks ago when he was instructed to leave your body believes this is another of a long series of nonsense basically from the u.k. government or u.k. government that has no positive out of it nothing sensible to see it all and carry it with frankly laughable skews to even of right wing commentators people who are not going to voting for independence are mocking misses me in scotland to be different for the nonce which is come up with. something positive to say but on the serious note you know when scotland's independent we will cooperate with london and we will look to maximize benefits for them for london and we just hope that the u.k. government who will do the same it will wake up to this reality sooner rather than later and act in a grown up fashion the way for disciplinary committee has all of moscow to see a scar football team to close a part of its stadium after claims a black player was racially abused midfielder the tour of manchester city reported

offensive monkey chanting and reported the incident to the referee but in a coach never has more on the decision. after carefully reviewing all the audio and video of the dance brought from the match the u.a.e. for disciplinary committee has acknowledged that the racist incident did take place so now it was also announced that following be a resend the entry abuse atop the rules against racism in football the committee could not let go these charges what were those decision made a maybe of moscow's fans stunned and here is what the president of the russian fans association had to say. it's an odd situation nobody saw it no one heard it see a scar and it's fan club dinoire the allegations everything's based on want to single player how to say this guy has never been punished for acts of racism and that is why the club is getting just a couple of good steady young sector shots and nods the whole home but still this

decision will be the next to scout home game against now champions buyer in munich . while the football commentator vladimir stocking coble use the decision has made the in top football association pay for the mistake of a single person to. go to room a have heard somebody shouting something incidents like that happen from time to time but it's not a sign of widespread racism rather that some individual sounds like a certain culture let's not forget that you're a pfizer european organization and europe is touchy when it comes to any form of racism you for calls for a show of friendship on the field but it's difficult to program for random incidents by random individuals. i'll be back with more news for you after a very short break this is after you live in moscow.

at least sixteen percent of imports came from illegal fishing. the european union is ironically taking fish from some of the poorest nations on earth so this is a very serious and very urgent problem that needs immediate international action. on the territorial waters they fish they load the fish into the ships and leave. illegal fishing you're taking the bread out of our mouths. speak your language. programs and documentaries in arabic it's all here on. reporting from the world talks about six of the yard p. interviews intriguing story.

arabic for a visit arabic. news continues here in our. military helicopters iraq's prime minister is traveling to washington with a hefty shopping list of equipment he wants to help fight the sectarian violence in his country but some u.s. senators are warning that it is the iraqi leader himself pushing the country into civil war just today twelve people were killed in twin suicide attacks targeting soldiers and al qaeda militants and some experts tell whether offensive weapons will do anything to prevent the violence. those will never deal with the terrorist acts that have taken place in iraq you don't need airplanes to deal with . the. markets and new coffee shops the all the weapons that maliki is going for in fact this is

a cover for seeking the help of the usa to run for a third term he is showing he's going to show us a less he is reelected then this is the everybody uses is going to take this is what's being used by everybody in that respect i think at the end of the day the americans have a lot to ask and maliki to deal with any government would have the duty of protecting people and this government is protecting zero people bitcoins first ever a.t.m. has gone live plants in vancouver can now swap their digital currency for real cash so what is big and how can you turn a computer code into physical money well basically it's a currency used for on line transactions to use it client set up what it hiding their names behind a digital code that the payment can still be traced a transfer is done in a few clicks of

a mouse banks middlemen and tax agencies are left out reducing the fees next you choose whether to shop online using pick points or sell them for any official currency such as the euro or indeed the dollar where big coins are collected through a process called mining nothing to do with manual labor but a chain of computers cracking codes and getting coins in exchange jeffrey albert tucker he's from the foundation for economic education explains why he finds the technology impressive. a year ago this time i thought it was an hour this is just another student technology you know they come along every few days and they flame out so i'm a fairly recent convert the more i look into it the more confident i would get in the future of monetary system is cryptic cryptography and this kind of crypto market based currency it's quite spectacular and i tell you it's only utility it's a few times using very quickly realized this is incredibly easy it's much much

easier and quicker and there's no danger of fraud or identity theft all these other things that come with the old fashioned credit card system it's just it's a pure technology the us has its reasons to hinder the big con expansion is being labeled a currency for online activities like gambling and even gun running an exchange rate is volatile the low point came in general this year when the valley was just thirteen dollars two hundred sixty six dollars has been the highest point and it took just a few months to get there before falling a little what despite the ups and downs jeffrey talk of believes it is here to stay . really it's funny that it to be an alternative currency and there's no reason why it can't become a means of ok so you can do your account you know and so people do this all the time and you can interrupt. and live a wonderful life meaning that you can bypass government currency entirely which the u.s. is now restricting what's called money exchange businesses so there's so much high

costs associated with it doesn't surprise me that the start of canada or the u.s. the u.s. will lose out and it's this trend where it's very very. well big coin maybe only four years old but it's already had more than its fair share of controversy the currency it paid back in two thousand and nine created by students researches and hobbyists a year on there was a famous sale when surely the world's most expensive pizza was bought for ten thousand because it's a sum now worth about two million dollars would you believe by two thousand and eleven its value had gone up a thousand fold a single piece was selling for more than the british pound the euro and indeed the american dollar at this point more than a thousand online merchants and organizations such as we could pedia were accepting big coins as payment and donations early this year its market topped the billion dollar mark and is believed to have grown by another five hundred million since then the next white adoption of the big coin was picked up by found authorities eager to tax and regulate this new phenomenon money laundering concerns and shady

online activities last month saw the online black market silk road raided and shut down by the f.b.i. up to thirty million dollars worth of big coins were seized during that operation but mitchell democrat he's the chief court officer says the current is only getting stronger as a result. we've got any money laundering policy in place where we limit users to three thousand dollars per day every transaction you make is recorded on a public ledger your name is attached to it but if somebody wants to find out who is making that transaction it can be done the silk road is a perfect example of that they ended up shutting down the silk road and you be black market e.-bay and they actually shut that down which is actually a very good thing for the currency as a whole was a lot of people associated it associated big going just directly with the silk road and so since it's been shut down the currency did dip about ten percent for both

twelve hours and since then people realize that it's not just about the black market and it's actually a legitimate currency and it's actually got over one hundred percent since then. just for money we've got more stories for you waiting on line at the moment here not including who's the most influential in the wind chill i should say of the mole russia's president putin tops forbes' annual list of the most powerful people in the world pushing barack obama down to second what put him on top. and i don't call . the u.k. billions an arab investment by becoming the first european state issued islamic bones come from. and also their families and friends reunited after israel releases twenty six palestinian prisoners we got the touching pictures on our invasion section right now.

the city of russia's dagestan region has been targeted by twin bomb attack that is reports two people were killed and up to fifteen injured including three policemen the blast took place near the entrance to shops with one building bursting into flames thirty forces are searching for other possible explosive devices close to the. other world news for you now in our world update this hour police and national supporters of the ousted morsi at the campus of the university current scuffles for yesterday's rally with protesters insisting the deposed president is still the legitimate leader this comes as the deputy leader of the muslim brotherhood freedom and justice party was arrested is likely to stand trial alongside morsi and some of

his other key supporters next monday. also in our world update this protests have erupted in anchor against turkey's conservative government on the country's republic day police used tear gas to stop people marching towards from square as part of celebrations the day marks the ninetieth anniversary of the turkish republic which was founded by stuff ataturk the riots followed yesterday's clashes with police over the government's refusal to detain a policeman accused of killing a protest. the start of the twenty fourteen sochi winter olympics is now just one hundred days away the head of the international olympic committee paid a visit to the host city to see for himself our preparations going has more from sochi. the new president of the international olympic committee thomas park has been in sochi all week to mark one hundred days until the start of the games and he's just given one of his first interview since being appointed in the new role he

gave it to r.t. now we sat down and discussed a whole host of issues surrounding the sochi games notably of course the so-called gay propaganda law here in russia the planning of nontraditional sexual relations to minors now on monday president putin said that everyone is welcome in sochi regardless of sexual orientation and this is the message for spectators and athletes who are concerned about the law. the. olympic games in sochi will be free of any kind of. discrimination. olympic charter will apply so the president putin. in sochi to celebrate excellent olympic winter games altogether but also in our chat back told me that the i.o.c. have complete confidence that all of venues will be completed come the opening

ceremony on february the seventh but he did reiterate his earlier point before the organizers the final one hundred days in the lead up to the games are set to be the busiest. reporting there the u.k. is we thinking it's policy towards green energy taxation the prime minister pledged to cut so-called green levies which have a hefty sum to energy bills. went to find out why the move is being backed by a majority of the public. talking about the weather may be a british foible but nowadays it can make or break a household budget when terrorist setting in mass are announcements that energy prices of things are fine yes again now roughly ten percent of the u.k. says africa's household energy bill is made up of so-called green taxes and the prime minister david cameron has pledged to do away with them in order to help out struggling brits now the ideas proved popular for a country battling with all staring according to

a recent poll by savation some sixty percent of brits object to having to shell out for the green levies to sort of over for the first real world you know so about what it is close to a year and see if it's way things cheaper things to go to a bit of prefer the kosovo profits enough surely which is to tax that noise be well spun we never said let's see bills come down to here us of a shadow of a doubt opposition leader ed miliband says that green levy's aunt to blame for britain's high energy prices but the government figures show that green taxes adds one hundred twelve pounds to the average household energy bill in the u.k. now roughly half of that money goes toward supporting clean a green energy such as solar panels like the ones like kate on the roof of london's blackfriars train station but as the latest survey shows for the brits counting the pennies to keep warm this winter concern for the environment is going to have to

come in second for now polly boy arty london. that's the way it is at the moment i'll be back with more news with the team in about thirty minutes from now in the meantime we look at combat schools in ukraine.

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